The phrase "a poor husband" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a husband who is lacking in some way, whether financially, emotionally, or in terms of behavior.
Example: "After years of neglect, she finally realized that she had married a poor husband who never supported her dreams."
Alternatives: "an inadequate husband" or "a bad husband".
"AN IRE-ISH TALE," a puppet production about a poor husband and wife who try to trick two kindly leprechauns into granting them riches.
"One can imagine how a poor husband would get entangled into the clutches of law [after a suicide], which would virtually ruin his sanity, peace of mind, career and probably his entire life," the judgment said.
Meg has some wealthy admirers, but she happily chooses a poor husband because she loves him for who he is.
McTeague was first published in 1899 and was inspired by an October 1893 murder case in which Patrick Collins, a poor husband with a history of beating his wife Sarah, finally stole her money and stabbed her to death at her San Francisco workplace.
Over the years he continued to waver between the wildness of his youth and the somnolent success of his middle years, sometimes existing on a diet of tequila and milk, other times wrapping himself in the love of his family, where he judged himself "a poor husband and a good father".
*Li 6-3 1-1 CLijsters Li aims a bit of a rant at her poor husband at 15-all, but it seems to do the trick as she breaks straight back.
"I thought of my poor husband, crammed like a sardine," Dr. Brown said.
My poor husband, who was a very decent guy, tried as hard as he could to be sympathetic.
A film made that same year, Kisses for My President, focused entirely on the "First Gentleman problem": its strapline was "When a woman becomes president of the US, what happens to her poor husband when he becomes the 'First Lady'?" The film opens with Leslie Harrison McCloud (Polly Bergen) being sworn in, while the camera captures her husband's peevish expression.
I nearly saved my poor husband from his last attack of bronchitis by knitting him a waistcoat.
